Archive for August 2008

Off Grid or Green Toilets – Part 2 Incinerating

Aug 30th, 2008 | By Fritz Nordengren

In this second part of the 3 part series, there is another option for the disposal of waste.  Incinerating toilets burn everything, leaving minimal or no ashes and what remains is clean.  Ecojohn and Incinolet are two of the better known makers.
The essentials of operation are the use of a paper liner in the bowl
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Pheasants (“Take two, people”)

Aug 25th, 2008 | By Fritz Nordengren
Pheasants (“Take two, people”)

I know many people anxiously awaited the email this week.  No, not the one about Obama’s running mate, the other email  The one about the pheasants.
One of the new projects this year was to raise and release pheasants into the habitat on the ranch.  The first pheasants arrived the week of June 12, and were
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Living Small Goes to Graduate School

Aug 25th, 2008 | By Fritz Nordengren

Leave it to a Yale grad student to capture the imagination of the media and bloggers everywhere about living small. US News ran the news item in one of their blogs, and the Virginia Gazette picked up the photos here

It’s blogged here at Jetson Green, and even moleskinerie.com.  Elizabeth Turnbull’s reported $11,000,  144 square foot (plus
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Gardening Question

Aug 24th, 2008 | By Fritz Nordengren

Gardening Question of the Day for Sunday, August 24, 2008
Is there a natural way to repel or trap moths? (answer).
From The Old Farmer’s Almanac.



7 book storage tips

Aug 24th, 2008 | By Fritz Nordengren

Embrace your inner librarian is the title of this photo feature at Inventor spot.  Seven interesting and unique idea for storing your books.  For those of us with rafters, the apartment therapy link to the rafter book storage opens ideas in new places.



Off Grid or Green Toilets – Part 1 Composting

Aug 20th, 2008 | By Fritz Nordengren

A composting toilet is not an outhouse.
In a traditional outhouse — either in open ground hold or a concrete holding vault or tank, the waste collects and over time, turns septic.  Much of what contributes to odor is the waste being wet, and as a result, many people dislike outhouses.  There are great outhouse designs
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Off Grid or Green Toilets – Basics of Septic

Aug 7th, 2008 | By Fritz Nordengren

Even though every person and animal on the planet creates waste, it is an awkward silence that typically follows the beginning of a discussion about toilets, outhouses, and alternative toilets.  In certain public health circles, its every day chatter, but for most of the western world, toilets and their use are not part of regular
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Steve! the watch rabbit

Aug 5th, 2008 | By Fritz Nordengren

There was a television show about a popular neighborhood bar called “Cheers” and one of the characters was named “Norm.”  And when ever Norm would enter the bar, he would say Hi, everybody”, and the entire bar would yell “Norm!”
Earlier this spring, a very small and skinny rabbit was around he cabin and Noah said
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